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[caption id="attachment_17516" align="alignleft"]rottentomatoes.com[/caption]“A Band Called Death”

After hearing some heavy metal in the early Seventies, Dannis, Bobby and David Hackney decided to make a big change in the type of music they were performing. Up until then, the African-American siblings from Detroit had been playing a blend of R&B and rock as the Rock Fire Funk Express.

[caption id="attachment_17509" align="alignleft"]sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net[/caption]“This is a book about recovery—my recovery—from addiction to drugs, specifically cocaine. But… my addictions didn’t stop there. I was addicted to… drugs, love, men, food, you name it—if it gave me the temporary illusion of feeling whole and complete… My wants knew no end. Those wants nearly destroyed me and my child many, many times over…

[caption id="attachment_17446" align="alignleft"]Photo of the author, randomhouse.com [/caption]“In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a plantation sugar owner by chance…

The swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide would not only lift [him] from abject poverty… but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace.

Stuart uses her own family story—from the 17th C. through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas.”

“This is how I define ‘man up’: you are what you are and the sooneryou stop hating what makes you unique, and start celebrating it andusing it to make you stand out from the crowd, the better your life willbe. For some reason, I was lucky enough to figure that out at an earlyage…This book, like my life, will be a bit of a roller coaster—you’llexperience ups and downs, fits of laughter—and who knows, youmight even throw up! So keep your arms and legs inside the rideat all times and, for goodness sake, stay seated until we come toa complete stop.”— Excerpted from Prologue and Epilogue (pages xvi and 204)

[caption id="attachment_17302" align="alignleft"]Rochelle Aytes[/caption]Born in New York on May 17, 1976, Rochelle Aytes is quickly establishing herself as one of Hollywood’s brightest starlets with an impressive film and television career on the rise. Rochelle is now starring on “Mistresses”, ABC’s new, nighttime soap opera premiered Monday, June 3rd.

It’s important to note that this edition of “Fast & Furious” is every bit as funny as it is adrenaline-fueled. Most of the laughs come courtesy of comic relief provided by Tyrese, who is back in an expanded role as trash-talking Roman Pearce, a card-carrying member of the fugitive gang of auto thieves led by macho Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel).

Michelle Rhee was born on Christmas Day, 1969 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A first-generation Korean-American descended from a long line of educators, she embarked on a career as a teacher in inner-city Baltimore soon after graduating from Cornell University with a BA in government.

[caption id="attachment_17204" align="alignleft"]rottentomatoes.com[/caption]Brendan King (Crawford Wilson), a kid raised in the foster care system, was sent away at the age of 15 after being caught dealing drugs and running guns as a member of a notorious gang known as Avenue D. Upon parole a few years later, the juvenile offender was released to the custody of Vanessa (Lynn Whitfield) and Mike Stubbs (James McDaniel), a couple still struggling with the loss of their police officer son in a senseless act of violence while he was on duty.

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